I concur with the sentiments of a great many here. I am downgrading my 7-8 to a 3-4 by the end of the year. I was very pleasantly surprised, shocked even, that (unless the entire world is conspiring to keep news of any such from reaching our ears) there were no MAJOR problems, no terroristic nastiness, and no reports of viruses rearing their ugly little heads. I expect that problems will occur, probably not fully manifesting until days/weeks/months from now. My confidence in our ability to handle them has increased greatly though. (Forgive me, I'm not used to being an optimist where the abilities of my fellow humans is concerned, it's not easy to find the words.) If the glitches do not multiply exponentially, we will likely prevail without too many long-term effects. The fact that the power grids have stayed up is a very good sign, IMHO. As long as that remains consistant I have a new-found feeling of confidence that we can deal with situations as they arise. I guess we'll all have to see. I'm hoping that this forum stays up as a place to moniter any developing difficulties. Hopefully the more annoying of the debunkers are now satisfied and will leave us alone in favor of returning to their prior hobbies: pulling wings off flies and having sex with inflatable dolls.

My warm regards to almost all of you,

John Ludi

-- Ludi (ludi@rollin.com), January 01, 2000

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Shooooooooot!! Just had an awful thought re virus. Wouldn't the hackers wait until the computers are up and running Monday? Are they going to send their bugs out to shut down systems? I had an email that looked like it might be a virus this morning and I deleted. It said, "so just open this".

Taz

-- Taz (Tassi123@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

SYSOPS

Please delete above message from viscious troll John Ludi.

-- Jim1Bets (jim1bets@worldnet.att.net), January 01, 2000.

sorry, John is not a troll.

But he should read a bit more.

John- I suggest you read Lane Core's series:

What's Wrong With the Way The World Thinks About Y2K

-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.

plonk!,

(You live so close to me, one of these days we should debate in person.)

I've read it (and a great deal of other writings) already. I have been looking into Y2K for 3 years after all. My feelings are still the same as they have always been: if the Crisis manifestations are nominal, the Chronic difficulties are (hopefully) within the realm of the managable. I still think that there are some major difficulties ahead, don't get me wrong. I just now feel that we have a decent chance to avert total disaster, depending on the time elements involved. If we all go back to work on Monday (and in the weeks to follow) to an exponentially increasing amount of glitches that occur too quickly for us to deal with, then we will have not prepped in vain. I've said to various friends and family that I was far more worried about the chronic problems inherent in this phenom than the crisis point itself. Humans are hard-wired to deal with sudden disasters...erosion is a LOT harder for us to cope with! My sense of hope is based upon the fact that the crisis point did not manifest in any major way last night or this morning. If we had to deal with BOTH a crisis scenario AND the chronic effects...well we would likely be toast. Now we have a chance. I hope our tendency towards complacency does not cause us to blow it completely.

We're not out of the woods yet.

John Ludi, cautiously hopeful.

-- Ludi (ludi@rollin.com), January 01, 2000.